Quotes About Legacy

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.

India is a civilization with a history that is thousands of years old.The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.

I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.

The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.

History and the generations to come will judge our leaders by the decisions they make in the coming weeks.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals.

you don't need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago,

History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.

If greatness was easy to attain, everyone's name would be in history books.

Regard for the past only extends to its outward forms.

Give the historians something to write about.

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.

I've told myself I have a chance to make history, and that's my focus.

History a distillation of rumor

My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history.

George W. Bush is history's president, a man for whom the long-term success or failure of democracy in Iraq will determine his place in history.

When somebody asks about the greatest players in history, I start with Bill Russell. More than the best player is the MVP, and the MVP in the history of team sports is Bill Russell.

I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done.

Nixon has enough to overcome in terms of his legacy and his political history. Now he has to overcome the in-fighting between his daughters. It's so sad. There's another obstacle for him to clear.